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| '''Political science''' is best defined in comparison to [[PoliticalPhilosophy|political philosophy]]: one attempts to understand politics from first principles, reasoned outward, in a coherent and consistent theory; the other attempts to understand politics from observations and theories of what explains the variance therein. This page addresses the ''latter''. | |
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| == Comparative Politics == Pretty much everything where states are the unit of analysis. * [[PoliticalScience/CityPolitics|City Politics]] * [[PoliticalScience/Democratization|Democratization]] * [[PoliticalScience/InternationalDevelopment|International Development]] == Political Parties and Movements == Comparative politics methods applied to non-states. There is some overlap with public choice theory (esp. [[PoliticalScience/InstitutionalDesign|institutional design]]). * [[PoliticalScience/CriticalElectionsTheory|Critical elections theory]] * [[PoliticalScience/IssuesEvolutionModel|Issues evolution model]] * [[PoliticalScience/PartyPolarization|Party polarization]] |
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| * [[PoliticalScience/PivotalPoliticsModel|Pivotal Politics Model]] | Public choice and social choice are highly interconnected. In general, public choice seeks to be strictly positive, while social choice leans into [[PoliticalPhilosophy|philosophy]] and normative study. Like, 'given a voting system, which agent has most control' vs. 'what is the most fair voting system'. But the theorists fundamentally speak the same language, and it's more coherent to group them together by field of study. |
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| * [[PoliticalScience/InstitutionalDesign|Institutional design]] * [[PoliticalScience/MedianVoterTheorem|Median voter theorem]] * [[PoliticalScience/PivotalPoliticsModel|Pivotal politics model]] * [[PoliticalScience/RationalChoiceVoting|Rational choice voting]] |
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| * [[PoliticalScience/CageDistanceFramework|CAGE Distance Framework]] * [[PoliticalScience/WilsonLowiMatrix|Wilson-Lowi Matrix]] |
* [[PoliticalScience/CageDistanceFramework|CAGE distance framework]] * [[PoliticalScience/Outbidding|Outbidding]] * [[PoliticalScience/RegulatoryEconomics|Regulatory economics]] * [[PoliticalScience/WilsonLowiMatrix|Wilson-Lowi matrix]] |
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| * [[PoliticalScience/BargainingModelOfWar|Bargaining model of war]] * [[PoliticalScience/ConflictTheory|Conflict theory]] * [[PoliticalScience/Constructivism|Constructivism]] * [[PoliticalScience/Institutionalism|Institutionalism]] * [[PoliticalScience/RallyAroundTheFlagEffect|Rally around the flag effect]] * [[PoliticalScience/Rationalism|Rationalism]] |
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| == Miscellany == | |
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| * [[PoliticalScience/AffectivePolarization|Affective Polarization]] * [[PoliticalScience/GiniCoefficient|Gini coefficient]] * [[PoliticalScience/SouthernExceptionalism|Southern exceptionalism]] * Some resources on this wiki: * listings of [[CategoryState|states]] and [[CategoryCityState|city-states]] * listings of [[CategoryEmpire|empires]] (including ''de facto'' empires) |
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| * [[TheTragedyOfGreatPowerPolitics|The Tragedy of Great Power Politics]], John J. Mearsheimer, 2014 (2nd ed.) * [[EpistemicSuperimposition|Epistemic superimposition: the war in Ukraine and the poverty of expertise in international relations theory]], Jan Dutkiewicz and Jan Smolenski, in Journal of International Relations and Development (2023) |
Note: reading notes for the above topics are listed on the respective pages, ''not here''. * [[EnglandInTheAgeOfTheAmericanRevolution|England in the Age of the American Revolution]], Lewis Namier, 1931 * [[TheEvolutionOfCooperation|The Evolution of Cooperation]], Robert Axelrod and William D. Hamilton, 1981 * [[WhatHasEconomicsToSayAboutRacialDiscrimination|What Has Economics to Say About Racial Discrimination?]], Kenneth J. Arrow. 1998 * [[HardAndSoftLawInInternationalGovernance|Hard and Soft Law in International Governance]], Kenneth Abbott and Duncan Snidal, 2000 * [[TwilightOfImpunityForAfricasPresidentialCriminals|Twilight of impunity for Africa's presidential criminals]], Bruce Baker, 2004 * [[StatisticalBackwardsInduction|Statistical Backwards Induction: A Simple Method for Estimating Strategic Models]]; Muhammet Ali Bas, Curtis S. Signorino, and Robert W. Walker; 2006 * [[MarvinFrankelsMistakesAndTheNeedToRethinkFederalSentencing|Marvin Frankel's Mistakes and the Need to Rethink Federal Sentencing]], Lynn Adelman and Jon Deitrich, 2008 * [[ImprovingTheGuidelinesThroughCriticalEvaluation|Improving the Guidelines Through Critical Evaluation: An Important New Role for District Courts]], Lynn Adelman and Jon Deitrich, 2009 * [[AloofnessOrDirtyHands|Aloofness or Dirty Hands? Administrative Culpability in the Making of the Second Ghetto]], Mohamad G. Alkadry and Brandi Blessett, 2010 * [[WhatTheSentencingCommissionOughtToBeDoing|What the Sentencing Commission Ought to Be Doing: Reducing Mass Incarceration]], Lynn Adelman, 2013 * [[MeasuringInternalPoliticalEfficacyInThe1988NationalElectionStudy|Measuring Internal Political Efficacy in the 1988 National Election Study]]; Richard G. Niemi, Stephen C. Craig, and Franco Mattei; 2014 * [[RacialConflictInGlobalSociety|Racial Conflict in Global Society]], John Stone and Polly Rizova, 2014 * [[DetectingGroupedLocalAverageTreatmentEffectsAndSelectingTrueInstrumentsWithAnApplicationToEstimatingTheEffectOfPrisonOnRecidivism|Detecting Grouped Local Average Treatment Effects and Selecting True Instruments With an Application to Estimating the Effect of Prison on Recidivism]]; Nicolas Apfel, Helmut Farbmacher, Rebecca Groh, Martin Huber, and Henrika Langen; 2023 * [[PoliticiansTheoriesOfVotingBehavior|Politicians’ Theories of Voting Behavior]]; Jack Lucas, Lior Sheffer, Peter John Loewen, Stefaan Walgrave, Karolin Soontjens, Eran Amsalem, Stefanie Bailer, Nathalie Brack, Christian Breunig, Pirmin Bundi, Linda Coufal, Patrick Dumont, Sarah Lachance, Miguel M. Pereira, Mikael Persson, Jean-benoit Pilet, Anne Rasmussen, Maj-britt Sterba, and Frédéric Varone; 2024 * [[IncreasingIntergovernmentalCoordinationToFightCrime|Increasing intergovernmental coordination to fight crime: evidence from Mexico]], Marco Alcocer, 2024 * [[AllPoliticsIsLocal|All Politics Is Local: Studying Women’s Representation in Local Politics in Authoritarian Regimes]], Carolyn Barnett and Marwa Shalaby, 2024 * [[TheGeneralizabilityOfIRExperimentsBeyondTheUS|The Generalizability of IR Experiments Beyond the U.S.]]; Lotem Bassan-Nygate, Jonathan Renshon, Jessica L.P. Weeks, and Chagai M. Weiss; 2024 * [[UnconditionalLoyalty|Unconditional Loyalty: The Survival of Minority Autocracies]], Salam Alsaadi, 2025 * [[FurtherBackToTheFuture|Further Back to the Future: Neo-Royalism, the Trump Administration, and the Emerging International System]], Stacie E. Goddard and Abraham Newman, 2025 * [[AreFirmsGerrymandered|Are Firms Gerrymandered?]]; Joaquín Artés, Aaron R. Kaufman, Brian K. Richter, and Jeffrey F. Timmons; 2025 * [[EfficacyOfCongressionalOversight|Efficacy of Congressional Oversight]], Pamela Ban and Seth J. Hill, 2025 * [[HowDoesShamingHumanRightsViolatorsAbroadShapeAttitudesAtHome|How Does Shaming Human Rights Violators Abroad Shape Attitudes at Home?]], Lotem Bassan-Nygate, 2025 * [[CriminalFragmentationInMexico|Criminal fragmentation in Mexico]], Jane Esberg, 2026 == Data Notes == * Relevant government agencies, which link to many data notes: * [[UnitedStates/BureauOfJusticeStatistics|BJS]] * [[UnitedStates/BureauOfLaborStatistics|BLS]] * [[UnitedStates/CensusBureau|Census Bureau]] * [[UnitedStates/NationalCenterForEducationStatistics|NCES]] * [[UnitedStates/DepartmentOfHousingAndUrbanDevelopment|HUD]] * see UMich's [[InstituteForSocialResearch|ISR]] * [[AliceProject|ALICE Project]] * [[AmericanNationalElectionStudies|ANES]] * [[UnitedStates/CentralIntelligenceAgency/WorldFactbook|CIA World Factbook]] * [[ComparativeStudyOfElectoralSystems|CSES]] * [[EuropeanElectionStudies|EES]] * [[EuropeanSocialSurvey|ESS]] * [[FreedomInTheWorld|Freedom House's Freedom in the World]] * [[GeneralSocialSurvey|GSS]] * [[InternationalSocialSurveyProgramme|ISSP]] * [[MostImportantProblemDataset|MIPD]] * [[Polity]] * [[VarietiesOfDemocracy|V-Dem]] * [[WorldGovernanceIndicatorsProject|WGI]] * [[WorldValuesSurvey|WVS]] |
Political Science
Political science is best defined in comparison to political philosophy: one attempts to understand politics from first principles, reasoned outward, in a coherent and consistent theory; the other attempts to understand politics from observations and theories of what explains the variance therein. This page addresses the latter.
Comparative Politics
Pretty much everything where states are the unit of analysis.
Political Parties and Movements
Comparative politics methods applied to non-states. There is some overlap with public choice theory (esp. institutional design).
Public Choice and Social Choice Theory
Public choice and social choice are highly interconnected. In general, public choice seeks to be strictly positive, while social choice leans into philosophy and normative study. Like, 'given a voting system, which agent has most control' vs. 'what is the most fair voting system'. But the theorists fundamentally speak the same language, and it's more coherent to group them together by field of study.
Political Economy
International Relations
Miscellany
- Some resources on this wiki:
listings of states and city-states
listings of empires (including de facto empires)
Reading Notes
Note: reading notes for the above topics are listed on the respective pages, not here.
England in the Age of the American Revolution, Lewis Namier, 1931
The Evolution of Cooperation, Robert Axelrod and William D. Hamilton, 1981
What Has Economics to Say About Racial Discrimination?, Kenneth J. Arrow. 1998
Hard and Soft Law in International Governance, Kenneth Abbott and Duncan Snidal, 2000
Twilight of impunity for Africa's presidential criminals, Bruce Baker, 2004
Statistical Backwards Induction: A Simple Method for Estimating Strategic Models; Muhammet Ali Bas, Curtis S. Signorino, and Robert W. Walker; 2006
Marvin Frankel's Mistakes and the Need to Rethink Federal Sentencing, Lynn Adelman and Jon Deitrich, 2008
Improving the Guidelines Through Critical Evaluation: An Important New Role for District Courts, Lynn Adelman and Jon Deitrich, 2009
Aloofness or Dirty Hands? Administrative Culpability in the Making of the Second Ghetto, Mohamad G. Alkadry and Brandi Blessett, 2010
What the Sentencing Commission Ought to Be Doing: Reducing Mass Incarceration, Lynn Adelman, 2013
Measuring Internal Political Efficacy in the 1988 National Election Study; Richard G. Niemi, Stephen C. Craig, and Franco Mattei; 2014
Racial Conflict in Global Society, John Stone and Polly Rizova, 2014
Detecting Grouped Local Average Treatment Effects and Selecting True Instruments With an Application to Estimating the Effect of Prison on Recidivism; Nicolas Apfel, Helmut Farbmacher, Rebecca Groh, Martin Huber, and Henrika Langen; 2023
Politicians’ Theories of Voting Behavior; Jack Lucas, Lior Sheffer, Peter John Loewen, Stefaan Walgrave, Karolin Soontjens, Eran Amsalem, Stefanie Bailer, Nathalie Brack, Christian Breunig, Pirmin Bundi, Linda Coufal, Patrick Dumont, Sarah Lachance, Miguel M. Pereira, Mikael Persson, Jean-benoit Pilet, Anne Rasmussen, Maj-britt Sterba, and Frédéric Varone; 2024
Increasing intergovernmental coordination to fight crime: evidence from Mexico, Marco Alcocer, 2024
All Politics Is Local: Studying Women’s Representation in Local Politics in Authoritarian Regimes, Carolyn Barnett and Marwa Shalaby, 2024
The Generalizability of IR Experiments Beyond the U.S.; Lotem Bassan-Nygate, Jonathan Renshon, Jessica L.P. Weeks, and Chagai M. Weiss; 2024
Unconditional Loyalty: The Survival of Minority Autocracies, Salam Alsaadi, 2025
Further Back to the Future: Neo-Royalism, the Trump Administration, and the Emerging International System, Stacie E. Goddard and Abraham Newman, 2025
Are Firms Gerrymandered?; Joaquín Artés, Aaron R. Kaufman, Brian K. Richter, and Jeffrey F. Timmons; 2025
Efficacy of Congressional Oversight, Pamela Ban and Seth J. Hill, 2025
How Does Shaming Human Rights Violators Abroad Shape Attitudes at Home?, Lotem Bassan-Nygate, 2025
Criminal fragmentation in Mexico, Jane Esberg, 2026
Data Notes
- Relevant government agencies, which link to many data notes:
see UMich's ISR